How to Customize iOS 11 Control Center

The new iOS 11 Control Center offers a completely new look and can be somewhat confusing to use. With the new Control Center in iOS 11, you see a lot more information on the screen, and you can customize it to see as little or as much as you want.

There are still some limitations to what you can add to the Control Center, but Apple now lets you change what you see, where the location of buttons are and even adds in 3D Touch support to quickly change settings and options.

You cannot go back to the old Control Center on iOS 11, but there is a limited time to downgrade to iOS 10.3.3 after the update arrives this fall if you can’t adjust to this new way set of shortcuts in iOS 11.

The iOS 11 Control Center is still accessible with a swipe up from the bottom edge of the screen on the home screen or inside most apps and offers access to WiFi, Music, Bluetooth, Do Not Disturb and many other controls.

How to Customize the iOS 11 Control Center

This is how you customize the iOS 11 Control Center to see the options you use most, get rid of annoying options and arrange the order of your Control Center controls on your iPhone or iPad.

Open the Settings App.

Tap on Control Center.

Tap on Customize Controls.Customize the iOS 11 Control Center.

Tap the Red Minus Sign to remove a control.

Tap the Green Plus Sign to add a control.

Tap and Hold on the three lines to the right and then drag up or down to change the order of controls that you added to the iOS 11 Control Center.

You can change this as much as you want to dial in something that works for your needs. Once you have these setup, you’ll find that you can 3D Touch the controls on phones that support it to access more options under each of the controls.

Pushing in on most of the controls launches more options inside of Control Center. This lets you turn WiFi on and off, turn on a personal hotspot, change music, control smart home devices, set timers, launch the front facing camera and much more. Spend a little time experimenting with that you can control from the iOS 11 Control Center screen. You no longer need to swipe left or right to get to the options you want to use or see like you did on iOS 10, which is a big improvement.

iOS 11 vs iOS 10: What’s New in iOS 11

iOS 11 iMessage Upgrades

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iMessages continue to be one of the biggest iPhone and iPad features that Apple offers. In fact, it’s a major reason we don’t switch from the iPhone to Android. Apple ramps up the options in the iOS 11 update with tweaks and new features for iMessages.

There is a new iMessage App Drawer so that it is easier to find the apps you want while you are in an iMessage conversation. This means you can use the iMessage apps to send stickers and other short bits of information to people faster on iOS 11.

Apple also now offers Messages in iCloud. This allows you to keep all of your iMessage and Text conversations in sync across your devices using iCloud. This also means that if you delete a conversation it is deleted across all devices. This will also help keep large message thread storage in check without the need to delete threads all the time.